WorksheetsIndustrialism Review
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 13mins
When factories and cities became the norm in the USA
Industrialism
Progressivism
Agricultural Revolution
Railroad Revolution
How were Americans able to settle the western U.S.?
expansion of the railroad system
slave labor increased
Native Americans sold their lands
Expansion of factories and cities
This allowed to instant communication over large spaces
telegraph
telegram
electricity
bessemer process
Carnegie used ____________ integration to expand his business
vertical
horizontal
Rockefeller used ________ integration to expand his business
vertical
horizontal
when you buy up competing businesses:
horizontal integration
vertical integration
when you buy the steps of production of a product:
vertical integration
horizontal integration
created to protect worker's rights
unions
strikes
robber barons
strikebreakers
The Wizard of Menlo Park:
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford used ____________________________ to produce cheap cars
assembly line
horizontal integration
vertical integration
bessemer process
How was food able to be produced faster and cheaper in the late 1800s?
the mechanization of agricultural tools
the use of slave labor
the use of horses
the expansion of farm land
Why would child labor be used in the textile business?
Child's hands were smaller and better able to do the job
Children didn't complain as much as other workers
Children needed a break from their parents
Children would get higher wages than other workers
Due to Industrialism,
more people moved to cities (urbanization)
more people moved away from cities
more land was used for farming
the US entered WWI
If you are a philanthropist, what does that mean?
You amass great wealth
You use your wealth to help people
You use your wealth to buy stock
You use your wealth to buy competing businesses
Businesses started to operate like the government and were called:
Monopolies
Oligopolies
Corporations
Quazi-Governments
Why were Unions not effective at first?
Businesses would just hire other workers
Strikes often became violent
Nobody wanted to be in a Union
Businesses made many reforms to the working conditions
